Digital posting match recommendation apparatus and methods

ABSTRACT

An apparatus for digital posting match recommendation and corresponding methods are provided. An exemplary apparatus includes at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor. The memory includes instructions configuring the at least a processor to receive a posting datum of a posting, receive a user datum from a user, retrieve a plurality of records from an immutable sequential listing, determine a compatibility score as a function of the posting datum and the user datum, determine a record recommendation as a function of the posting datum, the user datum, and the plurality of records and display, at a display communicatively connected to the at least a processor, the revised record recommendation and the compatibility score to the user.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application is a continuation of Non-provisional application Ser. No. 17/582,087 filed on Jan. 24, 2022, and entitled “DIGITAL POSTING MATCH RECOMMENDATION APPARATUS AND METHODS,” the entirety of which is incorporated herein by reference.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention generally relates to the field of human resource technology. In particular, the present invention is directed to a digital posting match recommendation apparatus and corresponding methods.

BACKGROUND

Matching records to postings is currently an inexact process overly reliant on guesswork. Programmatic attempts to alleviate this issue are in turn hampered by a lack of knowledge on the part of the programmers themselves.

SUMMARY OF THE DISCLOSURE

In an aspect, a digital posting match recommendation apparatus for job forecasting is provided. The apparatus includes at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor. The memory includes instructions configuring the at least a processor to receive a posting datum of a posting, receive a user datum from a user, retrieve a plurality of records from an immutable sequential listing, determine a compatibility score as a function of the posting datum and the user datum, determine a record recommendation as a function of the posting datum, the user datum, and the plurality of records and display, at a display communicatively connected to the at least a processor, the revised record recommendation and the compatibility score to the user.

In another aspect, a method for digital posting match recommendation is provided. The method includes receiving, by at least a processor, a posting datum of a posting, receiving, by the at least a processor, a user datum from a user, retrieving, by the at least a processor, a plurality of records from an immutable sequential listing, determining, by the at least a processor, a compatibility score as a function of the posting datum and the user datum, determining, by the at least a processor, a record recommendation as a function of the posting datum, the user datum, and the plurality of records and displaying, at a display communicatively connected to the at least a processor, the revised record recommendation and the compatibility score to the user.

These and other aspects and features of non-limiting embodiments of the present invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art upon review of the following description of specific non-limiting embodiments of the invention in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

For the purpose of illustrating the invention, the drawings show aspects of one or more embodiments of the invention. However, it should be understood that the present invention is not limited to the precise arrangements and instrumentalities shown in the drawings, wherein:

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of an apparatus for job forecasting;

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of exemplary machine-learning processes;

FIG. 3 illustrates an exemplary nodal network;

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of an exemplary node;

FIG. 5 is a graph illustrating an exemplary relationship between fuzzy sets;

FIG. 6 is a diagram of an immutable sequential listing;

FIG. 7 is a block diagram illustrating an exemplary embodiment of a cryptographic accumulator;

FIG. 8 is a flow diagram of an exemplary method for job forecasting; and

FIG. 9 is a block diagram of a computing system that can be used to implement any one or more of the methodologies disclosed herein and any one or more portions thereof.

The drawings are not necessarily to scale and may be illustrated by phantom lines, diagrammatic representations and fragmentary views. In certain instances, details that are not necessary for an understanding of the embodiments or that render other details difficult to perceive may have been omitted.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

At a high level, aspects of the present disclosure are directed to an apparatus and methods for digital posting match recommendation. posting match recommendation can be advantageous to a jobseeker throughout the job application process. For example, and without limitation, posting match recommendation may prepare a jobseeker for a job interview or assist a jobseeker with tailoring a resume to better showcase their qualifications for a particular employment position. Digital posting match recommendation also maximizes efficiency of the job application process by allowing a user to rapidly customize their resume based on requirements and qualifications posted by for the employment position as well as optimizing a jobseeker's performance during various stages of the job application process, such as during a job interview.

Aspects of the present disclosure can be used to generate a customized resume that is tailored to characteristics of a jobseeker and to requirements and/or qualifications needed by a job position of a job posting. A computing device may determine a record recommendation for a jobseeker so that a jobseeker may easily and accurately develop a resume specifically developed for a specific job position offered by an employer. Furthermore, an interaction preparation may be provided by computing device to prepare a jobseeker for an actual job interview related to a job position with a potential employer.

In an embodiment, methods and systems described herein may perform or implement one or more aspects of a cryptographic system. In one embodiment, a cryptographic system is a system that converts data from a first form, known as “plaintext,” which is intelligible when viewed in its intended format, into a second form, known as “ciphertext,” which is not intelligible when viewed in the same way. Ciphertext may be unintelligible in any format unless first converted back to plaintext. In one embodiment, a process of converting plaintext into ciphertext is known as “encryption.” Encryption process may involve the use of a datum, known as an “encryption key,” to alter plaintext. Cryptographic system may also convert ciphertext back into plaintext, which is a process known as “decryption.” Decryption process may involve the use of a datum, known as a “decryption key,” to return the ciphertext to its original plaintext form. In embodiments of cryptographic systems that are “symmetric,” decryption key is essentially the same as encryption key: possession of either key makes it possible to deduce the other key quickly without further secret knowledge. Encryption and decryption keys in symmetric cryptographic systems may be kept secret and shared only with persons or entities that the user of the cryptographic system wishes to be able to decrypt the ciphertext. One example of a symmetric cryptographic system is the Advanced Encryption Standard (“AES”), which arranges plaintext into matrices and then modifies the matrices through repeated permutations and arithmetic operations with an encryption key.

In embodiments of cryptographic systems that are “asymmetric,” either encryption or decryption key cannot be readily deduced without additional secret knowledge, even given the possession of a corresponding decryption or encryption key, respectively; a common example is a “public key cryptographic system,” in which possession of the encryption key does not make it practically feasible to deduce the decryption key, so that the encryption key may safely be made available to the public. An example of a public key cryptographic system is RSA, in which an encryption key involves the use of numbers that are products of very large prime numbers, but a decryption key involves the use of those very large prime numbers, such that deducing the decryption key from the encryption key requires the practically infeasible task of computing the prime factors of a number which is the product of two very large prime numbers. Another example is elliptic curve cryptography, which relies on the fact that given two points P and Q on an elliptic curve over a finite field, and a definition for addition where A+B=−R, the point where a line connecting point A and point B intersects the elliptic curve, where “0,” the identity, is a point at infinity in a projective plane containing the elliptic curve, finding a number k such that adding P to itself k times results in Q is computationally impractical, given correctly selected elliptic curve, finite field, and P and Q.

In some embodiments, systems and methods described herein produce cryptographic hashes, also referred to by the equivalent shorthand term “hashes.” A cryptographic hash, as used herein, is a mathematical representation of a lot of data, such as files or blocks in a block chain as described in further detail below; the mathematical representation is produced by a lossy “one-way” algorithm known as a “hashing algorithm.” Hashing algorithm may be a repeatable process; that is, identical lots of data may produce identical hashes each time they are subjected to a particular hashing algorithm. Because hashing algorithm is a one-way function, it may be impossible to reconstruct a lot of data from a hash produced from the lot of data using the hashing algorithm. In the case of some hashing algorithms, reconstructing the full lot of data from the corresponding hash using a partial set of data from the full lot of data may be possible only by repeatedly guessing at the remaining data and repeating the hashing algorithm; it is thus computationally difficult if not infeasible for a single computer to produce the lot of data, as the statistical likelihood of correctly guessing the missing data may be extremely low. However, the statistical likelihood of a computer of a set of computers simultaneously attempting to guess the missing data within a useful timeframe may be higher, permitting mining protocols as described in further detail below.

In an embodiment, hashing algorithm may demonstrate an “avalanche effect,” whereby even extremely small changes to lot of data produce drastically different hashes. This may thwart attempts to avoid the computational work necessary to recreate a hash by simply inserting a fraudulent datum in data lot, enabling the use of hashing algorithms for “tamper-proofing” data such as data contained in an immutable ledger as described in further detail below. This avalanche or “cascade” effect may be evinced by various hashing processes; persons skilled in the art, upon reading the entirety of this disclosure, will be aware of various suitable hashing algorithms for purposes described herein. Verification of a hash corresponding to a lot of data may be performed by running the lot of data through a hashing algorithm used to produce the hash. Such verification may be computationally expensive, albeit feasible, potentially adding up to significant processing delays where repeated hashing, or hashing of large quantities of data, is required, for instance as described in further detail below. Examples of hashing programs include, without limitation, SHA256, a NIST standard; further current and past hashing algorithms include Winternitz hashing algorithms, various generations of Secure Hash Algorithm (including “SHA-1,” “SHA-2,” and “SHA-3”), “Message Digest” family hashes such as “MD4,” “MD5,” “MD6,” and “RIPEMD,” Keccak, “BLAKE” hashes and progeny (e.g., “BLAKE2,” “BLAKE-256,” “BLAKE-512,” and the like), Message Authentication Code (“MAC”)-family hash functions such as PMAC, OMAC, VMAC, HMAC, and UMAC, Poly1305-AES, Elliptic Curve Only Hash (“ECOH”) and similar hash functions, Fast-Syndrome-based (FSB) hash functions, GOST hash functions, the Grøstl hash function, the HAS-160 hash function, the JH hash function, the RadioGatún hash function, the Skein hash function, the Streebog hash function, the SWIFFT hash function, the Tiger hash function, the Whirlpool hash function, or any hash function that satisfies, at the time of implementation, the requirements that a cryptographic hash be deterministic, infeasible to reverse-hash, infeasible to find collisions, and have the property that small changes to an original message to be hashed will change the resulting hash so extensively that the original hash and the new hash appear uncorrelated to each other. A degree of security of a hash function in practice may depend both on the hash function itself and on characteristics of the message and/or digest used in the hash function. For example, where a message is random, for a hash function that fulfills collision-resistance requirements, a brute-force or “birthday attack” may to detect collision may be on the order of O(2^(n/2)) for n output bits; thus, it may take on the order of 2²⁵⁶ operations to locate a collision in a 512 bit output “Dictionary” attacks on hashes likely to have been generated from a non-random original text can have a lower computational complexity, because the space of entries they are guessing is far smaller than the space containing all random permutations of bits. However, the space of possible messages may be augmented by increasing the length or potential length of a possible message, or by implementing a protocol whereby one or more randomly selected strings or sets of data are added to the message, rendering a dictionary attack significantly less effective.

A “secure proof,” as used in this disclosure, is a protocol whereby an output is generated that demonstrates possession of a secret, such as device-specific secret, without demonstrating the entirety of the device-specific secret; in other words, a secure proof by itself, is insufficient to reconstruct the entire device-specific secret, enabling the production of at least another secure proof using at least a device-specific secret. A secure proof may be referred to as a “proof of possession” or “proof of knowledge” of a secret. Where at least a device-specific secret is a plurality of secrets, such as a plurality of challenge-response pairs, a secure proof may include an output that reveals the entirety of one of the plurality of secrets, but not all of the plurality of secrets; for instance, secure proof may be a response contained in one challenge-response pair. In an embodiment, proof may not be secure; in other words, proof may include a one-time revelation of at least a device-specific secret, for instance as used in a single challenge-response exchange.

Secure proof may include a zero-knowledge proof, which may provide an output demonstrating possession of a secret while revealing none of the secret to a recipient of the output; zero-knowledge proof may be information-theoretically secure, meaning that an entity with infinite computing power would be unable to determine secret from output. Alternatively, zero-knowledge proof may be computationally secure, meaning that determination of secret from output is computationally infeasible, for instance to the same extent that determination of a private key from a public key in a public key cryptographic system is computationally infeasible. Zero-knowledge proof algorithms may generally include a set of two algorithms, a prover algorithm, or “P,” which is used to prove computational integrity and/or possession of a secret, and a verifier algorithm, or “V” whereby a party may check the validity of P. Zero-knowledge proof may include an interactive zero-knowledge proof, wherein a party verifying the proof must directly interact with the proving party; for instance, the verifying and proving parties may be required to be online, or connected to the same network as each other, at the same time. Interactive zero-knowledge proof may include a “proof of knowledge” proof, such as a Schnorr algorithm for proof on knowledge of a discrete logarithm. in a Schnorr algorithm, a prover commits to a randomness r, generates a message based on r, and generates a message adding r to a challenge c multiplied by a discrete logarithm that the prover is able to calculate; verification is performed by the verifier who produced c by exponentiation, thus checking the validity of the discrete logarithm. Interactive zero-knowledge proofs may alternatively or additionally include sigma protocols. Persons skilled in the art, upon reviewing the entirety of this disclosure, will be aware of various alternative interactive zero-knowledge proofs that may be implemented consistently with this disclosure.

Alternatively, zero-knowledge proof may include a non-interactive zero-knowledge, proof, or a proof wherein neither party to the proof interacts with the other party to the proof; for instance, each of a party receiving the proof and a party providing the proof may receive a reference datum which the party providing the proof may modify or otherwise use to perform the proof. As a non-limiting example, zero-knowledge proof may include a succinct non-interactive arguments of knowledge (ZK-SNARKS) proof, wherein a “trusted setup” process creates proof and verification keys using secret (and subsequently discarded) information encoded using a public key cryptographic system, a prover runs a proving algorithm using the proving key and secret information available to the prover, and a verifier checks the proof using the verification key; public key cryptographic system may include RSA, elliptic curve cryptography, ElGamal, or any other suitable public key cryptographic system. Generation of trusted setup may be performed using a secure multiparty computation so that no one party has control of the totality of the secret information used in the trusted setup; as a result, if any one party generating the trusted setup is trustworthy, the secret information may be unrecoverable by malicious parties. As another non-limiting example, non-interactive zero-knowledge proof may include a Succinct Transparent Arguments of Knowledge (ZK-STARKS) zero-knowledge proof. In an embodiment, a ZK-STARKS proof includes a Merkle root of a Merkle tree representing evaluation of a secret computation at some number of points, which may be 1 billion points, plus Merkle branches representing evaluations at a set of randomly selected points of the number of points; verification may include determining that Merkle branches provided match the Merkle root, and that point verifications at those branches represent valid values, where validity is shown by demonstrating that all values belong to the same polynomial created by transforming the secret computation. In an embodiment, ZK-STARKS does not require a trusted setup.

Zero-knowledge proof may include any other suitable zero-knowledge proof. Zero-knowledge proof may include, without limitation bulletproofs. Zero-knowledge proof may include a homomorphic public-key cryptography (hPKC)-based proof. Zero-knowledge proof may include a discrete logarithmic problem (DLP) proof. Zero-knowledge proof may include a secure multi-party computation (MPC) proof. Zero-knowledge proof may include, without limitation, an incrementally verifiable computation (IVC). Zero-knowledge proof may include an interactive oracle proof (IOP). Zero-knowledge proof may include a proof based on the probabilistically checkable proof (PCP) theorem, including a linear PCP (LPCP) proof. Persons skilled in the art, upon reviewing the entirety of this disclosure, will be aware of various forms of zero-knowledge proofs that may be used, singly or in combination, consistently with this disclosure.

In an embodiment, secure proof is implemented using a challenge-response protocol. In an embodiment, this may function as a one-time pad implementation; for instance, a manufacturer or other trusted party may record a series of outputs (“responses”) produced by a device possessing secret information, given a series of corresponding inputs (“challenges”), and store them securely. In an embodiment, a challenge-response protocol may be combined with key generation. A single key may be used in one or more digital signatures as described in further detail below, such as signatures used to receive and/or transfer possession of crypto-currency assets; the key may be discarded for future use after a set period of time. In an embodiment, varied inputs include variations in local physical parameters, such as fluctuations in local electromagnetic fields, radiation, temperature, and the like, such that an almost limitless variety of private keys may be so generated. Secure proof may include encryption of a challenge to produce the response, indicating possession of a secret key. Encryption may be performed using a private key of a public key cryptographic system, or using a private key of a symmetric cryptographic system; for instance, trusted party may verify response by decrypting an encryption of challenge or of another datum using either a symmetric or public-key cryptographic system, verifying that a stored key matches the key used for encryption as a function of at least a device-specific secret. Keys may be generated by random variation in selection of prime numbers, for instance for the purposes of a cryptographic system such as RSA that relies prime factoring difficulty. Keys may be generated by randomized selection of parameters for a seed in a cryptographic system, such as elliptic curve cryptography, which is generated from a seed. Keys may be used to generate exponents for a cryptographic system such as Diffie-Helman or ElGamal that are based on the discrete logarithm problem.

A “digital signature,” as used herein, includes a secure proof of possession of a secret by a signing device, as performed on provided element of data, known as a “message.” A message may include an encrypted mathematical representation of a file or other set of data using the private key of a public key cryptographic system. Secure proof may include any form of secure proof as described above, including without limitation encryption using a private key of a public key cryptographic system as described above. Signature may be verified using a verification datum suitable for verification of a secure proof; for instance, where secure proof is enacted by encrypting message using a private key of a public key cryptographic system, verification may include decrypting the encrypted message using the corresponding public key and comparing the decrypted representation to a purported match that was not encrypted; if the signature protocol is well-designed and implemented correctly, this means the ability to create the digital signature is equivalent to possession of the private decryption key and/or device-specific secret. Likewise, if a message making up a mathematical representation of file is well-designed and implemented correctly, any alteration of the file may result in a mismatch with the digital signature; the mathematical representation may be produced using an alteration-sensitive, reliably reproducible algorithm, such as a hashing algorithm as described above. A mathematical representation to which the signature may be compared may be included with signature, for verification purposes; in other embodiments, the algorithm used to produce the mathematical representation may be publicly available, permitting the easy reproduction of the mathematical representation corresponding to any file.

In some embodiments, digital signatures may be combined with or incorporated in digital certificates. In one embodiment, a digital certificate is a file that conveys information and links the conveyed information to a “certificate authority” that is the issuer of a public key in a public key cryptographic system. Certificate authority in some embodiments contains data conveying the certificate authority's authorization for the recipient to perform a task. The authorization may be the authorization to access a given datum. The authorization may be the authorization to access a given process. In some embodiments, the certificate may identify the certificate authority. The digital certificate may include a digital signature.

In some embodiments, a third party such as a certificate authority (CA) is available to verify that the possessor of the private key is a particular entity; thus, if the certificate authority may be trusted, and the private key has not been stolen, the ability of an entity to produce a digital signature confirms the identity of the entity and links the file to the entity in a verifiable way. Digital signature may be incorporated in a digital certificate, which is a document authenticating the entity possessing the private key by authority of the issuing certificate authority and signed with a digital signature created with that private key and a mathematical representation of the remainder of the certificate. In other embodiments, digital signature is verified by comparing the digital signature to one known to have been created by the entity that purportedly signed the digital signature; for instance, if the public key that decrypts the known signature also decrypts the digital signature, the digital signature may be considered verified. Digital signature may also be used to verify that the file has not been altered since the formation of the digital signature.

Referring now to FIG. 1 , an exemplary embodiment of a digital career development apparatus 100 (also referred to in this disclosure as a “career coaching apparatus” or “apparatus”) is illustrated in accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure. In one or more embodiments, apparatus 100 includes a computing device 104. Computing device 104 may include any computing device 104 as described in this disclosure, including without limitation a processor (e.g., processor 144), control circuit, microcontroller, microprocessor, digital signal processor (DSP), and/or system on a chip (SoC). Computing device may include a computer system with one or more processors (e.g., CPUs), a graphics processing unit (GPU), or any combination thereof. Computing device may include a memory component, such as memory component 140, which may include a memory, such as a main memory and/or a static memory, as discussed further in this disclosure below. Computing device may include a display component, as discussed further below in the disclosure. In one or more embodiments, computing device 104 may include, be included in, and/or communicate with a mobile device, such as a mobile telephone, smartphone, tablet, and the like. Computing device 104 may include a single computing device operating independently, or may include two or more computing devices operating in concert, in parallel, sequentially, or the like. Two or more computing devices may be included together in a single computing device or in two or more computing devices. Computing device 104 may interface or communicate with one or more additional devices, as described below in further detail, via a network interface device. Network interface device may be utilized for connecting computing device 104 to one or more of a variety of networks, and one or more devices. Examples of a network interface device include, but are not limited to, a network interface card (e.g., a mobile network interface card, a LAN card), a modem, any combination thereof, and the like. Examples of a network include, but are not limited to, a wide area network (e.g., the Internet, an enterprise network), a local area network (e.g., a network associated with an office, a building, a campus or other relatively small geographic space), a telephone network, a data network associated with a telephone/voice provider (e.g., a mobile communications provider data and/or voice network), a direct connection between two computing devices, and any combinations thereof. A network may employ a wired and/or a wireless mode of communication. In general, any network topology may be used. Information (e.g., data, software etc.) may be communicated to and/or from a computer and/or a computing device. Computing device 104 may include but is not limited to, for example, a computing device or cluster of computing devices in a first location and a second computing device or cluster of computing devices in a second location. Computing device 104 may include one or more computing devices dedicated to data storage, security, distribution of traffic for load balancing, and the like. Computing device 104 may distribute one or more computing tasks, as described below, across a plurality of computing devices of computing device 104, which may operate in parallel, in series, redundantly, or in any other manner used for distribution of tasks or memory between computing devices. Computing device 104 may be implemented using a “shared nothing” architecture in which data is cached at the worker, in an embodiment, this may enable scalability of apparatus 100 and/or computing device 104.

With continued reference to FIG. 1 , computing device 104 may be designed and/or configured to perform any method, method step, or sequence of method steps in any embodiment described in this disclosure, in any order and with any degree of repetition. For instance, computing device 104 may be configured to perform a single step or a sequence of steps repeatedly until a desired outcome or commanded outcome is achieved. Repetition of a step or a sequence of steps may be performed iteratively and/or recursively using outputs of previous repetitions as inputs to subsequent repetitions, aggregating inputs, and/or outputs of repetitions to produce an aggregate result, reduction or decrement of one or more variables such as global variables, and/or division of a larger processing task into a set of iteratively addressed smaller processing tasks. Computing device 104 may perform any step or sequence of steps as described in this disclosure in parallel, such as simultaneously and/or substantially simultaneously performing a step two or more times using two or more parallel threads, processor cores, or the like. Division of tasks between parallel threads and/or processes may be performed according to any protocol suitable for division of tasks between iterations. Persons skilled in the art, upon reviewing the entirety of this disclosure, will be aware of various ways in which steps, sequences of steps, processing tasks, and/or data may be subdivided, shared, or otherwise dealt with using iteration, recursion, and/or parallel processing.

With continued reference to FIG. 1 , computing device 104 is configured to receive a posting datum 112. For the purpose of this disclosure, “posting datum” is information related to an available and/or open job position. For the purposes of this disclosure, a “job position” (also referred to in this disclosure as a “job”) is a paid occupation with designated tasks associated therewith. A job position may include an employment with an employer, such as work as an employee (part-time or full-time), worker, contractor, self-employed, and the like. For example, and without limitation, posting datum 112 may include information and/or data from a job posting and/or listing that describes an open job position. Posting datum 112 may include a job position title, qualifications and/or requirements for the job position, expected responsibilities associated with the job position, benefits with the job position, compensation, geographical location, employer information, and the like. Posting datum 112 may include information related to an employer's expectations of a person hired for such a job position. For instance, and without limitations, posting datum 112 may include minimum qualifications that a candidate must possess to adequately perform the job position. Qualifications for job position may include education, certification, experience, desired skills and/or abilities, personal qualities, and the like. Posting datum 112 may also include information that a person hired for the job position may expect from the job position. For instance, and without limitation, posting datum 112 may include working hours for the job position, a type of salary, degree of professionalism, and the like. In one or more embodiments, posting datum 112 may include a datum or a plurality of data related to an available job.

In one or more embodiments, posting datum 112 may be provided to or received by computing device 104 using various means. In one or more embodiments, posting datum 112 may be provided to computing device 104 by a user, such as a jobseeker or potential job candidate that is interested in being a candidate or considered for a job position by the employer of the job position. A user may manually input posting datum 112 into computing device using, for example, a graphic user interface and/or an input device. For example, and without limitation, a user may use a peripheral input device to navigate graphic user interface and provide posting datum 112 to computing device 104. Non-limiting exemplary input devices include keyboards, joy sticks, light pens, tracker balls, scanners, tablet, microphones, mouses, switches, buttons, sliders, touchscreens, and the like. In other embodiments, posting datum 112 may be provided to computing device 104 by a database over a network from, for example, a network-based platform. Posting datum 112 may be stored in a database and communicated to computing device 104 upon a retrieval request form a user and/or from computing device 104. In other embodiments, posting datum 112 may be communicated from a third-party application, such as from a third-party application on a third-party server, using a network. For example, posting datum 112 may be downloaded from a hosting website for job listings. In one or more embodiments, computing device 104 may extract posting datum 112 from an accumulation of information provided by a database. For instance, and without limitation, computing device may extract needed information from database regarding the job position and avoid taking any information determined to be unnecessary. This may be performed by computing device 104 using a machine-learning model, which is described in this disclosure further below.

In one or more embodiments, database 123 may include inputted or calculated information and datum related to job position and user. A datum history may be stored in a database 132. Datum history may include real-time and/or previous inputted posting datum 112 and user datum 108. In one or more embodiments, database 132 may include real-time or previously determined record recommendations and/or previously provided interaction preparations. Computing device 104 may be communicatively connected with past posting database 132. For example, and without limitation, in some cases, database 132 may be local to computing device 104. In another example, and without limitation, database 132 may be remote to computing device 104 and communicative with computing device 104 by way of one or more networks. A network may include, but is not limited to, a cloud network, a mesh network, and the like. By way of example, a “cloud-based” system can refer to a system which includes software and/or data which is stored, managed, and/or processed on a network of remote servers hosted in the “cloud,” e.g., via the Internet, rather than on local severs or personal computers. A “mesh network” as used in this disclosure is a local network topology in which the infrastructure computing device 104 connect directly, dynamically, and non-hierarchically to as many other computing devices as possible. A “network topology” as used in this disclosure is an arrangement of elements of a communication network. Network may use an immutable sequential listing to securely store database 132. An “immutable sequential listing,” as used in this disclosure, is a data structure that places data entries in a fixed sequential arrangement, such as a temporal sequence of entries and/or blocks thereof, where the sequential arrangement, once established, cannot be altered or reordered. An immutable sequential listing may be, include and/or implement an immutable ledger, where data entries that have been posted to the immutable sequential listing cannot be altered.

Database 132 may include keywords. As used in this disclosure, a “keyword” is an element of word or syntax used to identify and/or match elements to each other. For example, without limitation, a keyword 208 may be “mechanical engineer” in the instance that a job posting is looking for a mechanical engineer to fill a job position. In another non-limiting example, a keyword may be “remote” in an example where the job posting is a remote job. Database 132 may be implemented, without limitation, as a relational database, a key-value retrieval datastore such as a NOSQL database, or any other format or structure for use as a datastore that a person skilled in the art would recognize as suitable upon review of the entirety of this disclosure.

With continued reference to FIG. 1 , computing device 104 is configured to determine a record recommendation 116 as a function of posting datum 112, user datum 108, and a plurality of records. For the purposes of this disclosure, a “record recommendation” is suggested information for generating or altering a resume specific to a posting, such as a posting for a particular job position. In one or more embodiments, computing device 104 may process a request submitted, for example, by user to determine record recommendation 116 once posting datum 112 has been inputted and received by computing device 104 or once posting datum 112 has been retrieved from a database. In one or more embodiments, record recommendation 116 may include recommended edits or changes to a user's resume, as discussed further in this disclosure below. In other embodiments, record recommendation 116 may include an automatedly generated record, as discussed further in this disclosure below. In one or more embodiments, record recommendation 116 may also include a specialize template in which the template is customized for the specific job position based on the posting datum 112 to allow a user to readily and easily input their personal information into the template to create their own personalized record, such as a resume.

With continued reference to FIG. 1 , computing device 104 is further configured to receive a user datum 108, as previously mentioned. For the purposes of this disclosure, “user datum” is personal user information and/or attributes relevant to a job position of a posting. User datum 108 may be audio and/or visual information related to the user's personal information, attributes, and/or credentials. For example, user datum may be a video, audio file, text, and the like. User datum may include a user's prior record, such as a draft resume, personal address, social security number, phone number, employment history, experience level, education, certification, acquired skills, geographical location, expected compensation, job performance acknowledgements (e.g., awards, honors, distinguishments), photograph of user, sample work product, and the like. User datum 108 may be received by computing device 104 by the same or similar means described above. For example, and without limitation, user datum 108 may be provided by a user directly, database, third-party application, remote device, immutable sequential listing, and the like. In non-limiting embodiments, user datum 108 may be provided as independent or unorganized facts, such as answers to prompted questions provided by computing device 104 and/or as dependent or organized facts, such as a previously prepared record that the user made in advance. In one or more embodiments, after receiving posting datum 112 and user datum 108, computing device 104 may determine record recommendation 116 as a function of posting datum 112 and user datum 108. For instance, and without limitation, record recommendation 116 may include a suggested alteration and/or change, such as an addition or deletion of a portion of previously prepared record. In another instance, and without limitation, record recommendation 116 may include an automatedly generated record created by computing device 104. In another instance, and without limitation, record recommendation 116 may include instructions and/or directions to user describing a process for creating a new customized record, such as a customized resume for a particular job position of a posting. In one or more embodiments, language processing, such as by processor 140, may be used to identify user-related data from a sample resume and replace the user-related data with user-specific data for user, such as user datum and/or posting datum. In one or more embodiments, computing device may present record recommendation 116 to a user, such as suggest an addition or deletion of a word or phrase from a previously prepared record, or may automatedly execute record recommendation 116, such as an automated addition or deletion of a word from a previously prepared record or automatically generate a customized record that computing device 104 solely creates. Record recommendation 116 may be presented using, for example and without limitations, using a display of apparatus 100, as discussed further in this disclosure below.

In one or more embodiments, record recommendation 116 may include suggested recommendations for a video resume. For instance, and without limitation, computing device 104 may be configured to compare at least an existing video resume, such as a draft video resume of a user, and target video resume, such as a sample, video resume, to obtain a comparison result. An initial pass may be used by computing device 104 to sort elements of video resumes into categories, and a subsequent pass may involve detailed comparison of category-matched video elements from at least two video resumes to one another. For example, the initial pass may include classifying the plurality of existing video resumes based on an image component, an audio component, user datum, or at least identifying user indica. For example, identifying indica could include personal information of user such as a name of user or subject, account number, social security number, telephone number, address, and the like. Comparison result may contain a comparison score that represents a degree of similarity between target video resume and existing video resume of the plurality of existing video resumes. In some embodiments, computing device 104 may utilize a candidate classifier, which may include any classifier used throughout this disclosure, to run an initial pass over the video elements of video resumes, break down and categorizes such elements before comparing it to target video resume. A “classifier,” as used in this disclosure is a machine-learning model, such as a mathematical model, neural net, or program generated by a machine learning algorithm known as a “classification algorithm that sorts inputs into categories or bins of data, outputting the categories or bins of data and/or labels associated therewith. A classifier may be configured to output at least a datum that labels or otherwise identifies a set of data that are clustered together, found to be close under a distance metric, or the like. As used in this disclosure, a “candidate classifier” is a classifier that classifies users to a target resume or a job position description. In some cases, candidate classifier may include a trained machine-learning model, which is trained using candidate training data. As used in this disclosure, “candidate training data” is a training data that correlates one or more of users and user datum to one or more job descriptions, description-specific data, and posting data. A target video resume may be representative of generic information related to posting data. For example, in the initial pass, video resume may be categorized based on user datum, such as attributes or credentials of user. As used in this disclosure, “credentials” are any piece of information that indicates an individual's qualification to perform a certain task or job.

In one or more embodiments, computing device 104 may implement a compatibility algorithm or generate a compatibility machine-learning module, such as machine-learning module 124, to determine a compatibility score 136 between user and job position. For the purposes of this disclosure, a “compatibility score” is a measurable value representing a relevancy of a user's characteristics with qualifications of a job position. In one or more non-limiting embodiments, compatibility score 136 may be a quantitative characteristic, such as a numerical value within a set range. For example, a compatibility score may be a “2” for a set range of 1-10, where “1” represents a job position and user having a minimum compatibility and “10” represents job position and user having a maximum compatibility. In other non-limiting embodiments, compatibility score 136 may be a quality characteristic, such as a color coding, where each color is associated with a level of compatibility. In one or more embodiments, if a compatibility score 136 is “low”, then a user and a job position are considered to have a minimum compatibility; if a compatibility score 136 is “high”, then a user and a job position are considered to have a maximum compatibility.

For the purposes of this disclosure, a “compatibility algorithm” is an algorithm that determines the relevancy of a user's characteristics with qualifications of a job position. If user is considering applying to a plurality of job positions, then the compatibility scores between each job position of the plurality of job positions and the user may be ranked so that the user may determine which job position the user is most compatible with of the job positions. Compatibility algorithm may include machine-learning processes that are used to calculate a set of compatibility scores. Machine-learning process may be trained by using training data associated with past calculations and/or information for the job position and user, such as data related to past prior compatibility scores, user datum 108, user datum history, posting datum 112, posting datum history, or any other training data described in this disclosure. Compatibility score 136 may be determined by, for example, if a certain numerical value of employment position data matches user data, where the more employment position data that matches user data, the higher the score and the greater the compatibility between the user and the job position. For example, and without limitation, posting datum 112 may include a qualification of requiring a teacher with at least five years of work experience, and user datum 108 may include seven years of work experience in teaching, then a numerical value representing compatibility score 136 may be increased due to the data correlating, thus indicating user is more compatible for the job position because of the provided user datum 108. In an embodiment, compatibility algorithm may be received from a remote device. In some embodiments, compatibility algorithm is generated by computing device 104. In one or more embodiments, compatibility algorithm may be generated as a function of a user input.

In one or more embodiments, a machine-learning process may be used to determine compatibility algorithm or to generate a machine-learning model that may directly calculate compatibility score 136. In one or more embodiments, a machine-learning model may be generated using training data. Training data may include inputs and corresponding predetermined outputs so that a machine-learning module may use the correlations between the provided exemplary inputs and outputs to develop an algorithm and/or relationship that then allows the machine-learning module to determine its own outputs for inputs. Training data may contain correlations that a machine-learning process may use to model relationships between two or more categories of data elements. The exemplary inputs and outputs may come from a database, such as any database described in this disclosure, or be provided by a user. In other embodiments, a machine-learning module may obtain a training set by querying a communicatively connected database that includes past inputs and outputs. Training data may include inputs from various types of databases, resources, and/or user inputs and outputs correlated to each of those inputs so that a machine-learning module may determine an output, such as compatibility score 136, for an input, such as posting datum 112 and user datum 108. Correlations may indicate causative and/or predictive links between data, which may be modeled as relationships, such as mathematical relationships, by machine-learning processes, as described in further detail below. In one or more embodiments, training data may be formatted and/or organized by categories of data elements by, for example, associating data elements with one or more descriptors corresponding to categories of data elements. As a non-limiting example, training data may include data entered in standardized forms by persons or processes, such that entry of a given data element in a given field in a form may be mapped to one or more descriptors of categories. Elements in training data may be linked to descriptors of categories by tags, tokens, or other data elements.

In one or more embodiments, record recommendation 116 may include information from posting datum 112 and user datum 108 to insert into a new customized record. Record recommendation 116 may include a formatted record. For example, a format of a resume may vary depending on the field of the job position. For example, and without limitation, categorization, syntax, grammar, section titles, headers, font, margins, and the like may vary depending on the field or area of the job position, such as in the field of engineering, advertisement, medicine, acting, and the like. Computing device 104 may determine the proper formatting for a customized record or record suggestion using posting datum 112 and/or or a database that includes generalize resume information and etiquette. Record recommendation 116 may provide a new customized resume in the format related to the job position associated with the posting datum 112. In one or more embodiments, record recommendation 116 may include a video component, audio components, text components, and combination thereof, and the like. For instance, and without limitation, customized record may include a video resume. As used in this disclosure, a “video resume” is a video in visual and/or audio form to provide a recording promoting a jobseeker for employment, such as for a particular job position. In some cases, video resume may include content that is representative or communicative of an at least attribute of a subject, such as a user. As used in this disclosure, a “subject” is a person such as, for example a jobseeker. Subject user may be represented directly by a video resume. For example, in some cases, an image component of a video resume may include an image of a subject. As used in this disclosure, an “image component” may be a visual representation of information, such as a plurality of temporally sequential frames and/or pictures, related to video resume and target video resume. For example, image component may include animations, still imagery, recorded video, and the like. Attributes may include subject's skills, competencies, credentials, talents, and the like. In some cases, attributes may be explicitly conveyed within video resume. Alternatively, or additionally, in some cases, attributes may be conveyed implicitly with video resume. Video resume may include a digital video. Digital video may be compressed to optimize speed and/or cost of transmission of video. Videos may be compressed according to a video compression coding format (i.e., codec). Exemplary video compression codecs include H.26x codecs, MPEG formats, VVC, SVT-AV1, and the like. In some cases, compression of a digital video may be lossy, in which some information may be lost during compression. Alternatively, or additionally, in some cases, compression of a digital video may be substantially lossless, where substantially no information is lost during compression.

In some cases, computing device 104 may include audiovisual speech recognition (AVSR) processes to recognize verbal content in a video resume. For example, computing device 104 may use image content to aid in recognition of audible verbal content such as viewing user move their lips to speak on video to process the audio content of video resume. AVSR may use image component to aid the overall translation of the audio verbal content of video resumes. In some embodiments, AVSR may include techniques employing image processing capabilities in lip reading to aid speech recognition processes. In some cases, AVSR may be used to decode (i.e. recognize) indeterministic phonemes or help in forming a preponderance among probabilistic candidates. In some cases, AVSR may include an audio-based automatic speech recognition process and an image-based automatic speech recognition process. AVSR may combine results from both processes with feature fusion. Audio-based speech recognition process may analysis audio according to any method described herein, for instance using a Mel frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) and/or log-Mel spectrogram derived from raw audio samples. Image-based speech recognition may perform feature recognition to yield an image vector. In some cases, feature recognition may include any feature recognition process described in this disclosure, for example a variant of a convolutional neural network. In some cases, AVSR employs both an audio datum and an image datum to recognize verbal content. For instance, audio vector and image vector may each be concatenated and used to predict speech made by a user, who is “on camera.”

In some cases, computing device 104 may be configured to recognize at least a keyword as a function of visual verbal content. In some cases, recognizing at least keyword may include an optical character recognition (OCR). In some cases, computing device 104 may transcribe much or even substantially all verbal content from target resume video. Similarly for textual resumes, such as written resumes, intelligent character recognition (ICR) may recognize written text one glyph or character at a time, for instance by employing machine-learning processes. In some cases, intelligent word recognition (IWR) may recognize written text, one word at a time, for instance by employing machine-learning processes.

Still referring to FIG. 1 , in some cases, OCR may include post-processing. For example, OCR accuracy may be increased, in some cases, if output is constrained by a lexicon. A lexicon may include a list or set of words that are allowed to occur in a document. In some cases, a lexicon may include, for instance, all the words in the English language, or a more technical lexicon for a specific field. In some cases, an output stream may be a plain text stream or file of characters. In some cases, an OCR process may preserve an original layout of visual verbal content. In some cases, near-neighbor analysis can make use of co-occurrence frequencies to correct errors, by noting that certain words are often seen together. For example, “Washington, D.C.” is generally far more common in English than “Washington DOC.” In some cases, an OCR process may make us of a prior knowledge of grammar for a language being recognized. For example, grammar rules may be used to help determine if a word is likely to be a verb or a noun. Distance conceptualization may be employed for recognition and classification. For example, a Levenshtein distance algorithm may be used in OCR post-processing to further optimize results.

In one or more embodiments, apparatus 100 may further include a memory component 140. Memory component 140 may be communicatively connected to computing device 104 and may be configured to store information and/or datum related to apparatus 100, such as posting datum 112, user datum 108, information related to record recommendation 116, information related to interaction preparation 120, and the like. In one or more embodiments, memory component 140 is communicatively connected to a processor and configured to contain instructions configuring processor to determine the record recommendation. Memory component 140 may be configured to store information and datum related to posting match recommendation. For example, memory component 140 may store previously prepared records (e.g., draft resumes), customized records generated by computing device 104, posting datum 112, user datum 108, interaction preparation 120, record recommendation 116, and the like. In one or more embodiments, memory component may include a storage device, as described further in this disclosure below.

With continued reference to FIG. 1 , computing device 104 is configured to provide an interaction preparation 120. For the purposes of this disclosure, “interaction preparation” is instructions, direction, or interactions used to educate and get ready a user for a job interview related to a job position. A job interview, such as a telephonic or in-person interview, may be conducted by a potential employer that posted the job position listing. Thus, interaction preparation 120 may simulate an interview process to ready user for an actual interview with the employer of the job position. In one or more embodiments, interaction preparation 120 may include a simulated interview, which may be done via video, audio, or text. For example, a chatbot may be used to simulate an employer-candidate conversation with the user.in real time. A chatbot may include a software application used to conduct a chat conversation using text or speech. Chatbot may include skills that allow chatbot to ask the user various questions related to the job position and user's qualifications for the job position. Chatbot may generate inquiries as a function of posting datum 112, user datum 108, record recommendation 116, compatibility score 136, interaction preparation 120 information, and the like. Chatbot may access database to generate customized inquiries for user and/or to present generic inquiries related to the job position. Generic inquiries may be imported into database by a user, using a network, using the web, by a third-party application, or other sources of job-related information. In one or more embodiments, display component 128 component is configured to display interaction preparation 120. In one or more embodiments, computing device 104 may implement a chatbot algorithm or a machine-learning module to generate a chatbot.

In one or more embodiments, display component 128 may be communicatively connected to computing device 104. Display component may be remote to computing device or integrated into computing device 104. Communication between computing device 104 and display component may be wired or wireless. In one or more embodiments, display component 128 may be configured to display posting datum 112, user datum 108, record recommendation 116, interaction preparation 120, compatibility score 136, database information, and the like. Display component 128 may include a graphic user interface (GUI) that a user may use to navigate through presented data or information by computing device 104. In one or more embodiments, a GUI may include a plurality of lines, images, symbols, and the like to show information and/or data. In non-limiting embodiments, display component 128 may include a smartphone, tablet, laptop, desktop, monitor, tablet, touchscreen, head-up display (HUD), and the like. In one or more embodiments, display component 128 may include a screen such as a liquid crystal display (LCD) various other types of displays or monitors, as previously mentioned in this disclosure. In one or more embodiments, user may view information and/or data displayed on display component 128 in real time. In one or more embodiments, display component may be configured to display received or determined information, which may be toggled through using, for example, an input device of display component or computing device 104. Display component 128 may include electronic components utilized to display image data or information, such as a video, GUI, photo, and the like.

Referring now to FIG. 2 , an exemplary embodiment of a machine-learning module 200 that may perform one or more machine-learning processes as described in this disclosure is illustrated. Machine-learning module may perform determinations, classification, and/or analysis steps, methods, processes, or the like as described in this disclosure using machine learning processes. A “machine learning process,” as used in this disclosure, is a process that automatedly uses training data 204 to generate an algorithm that will be performed by a computing device 104/module to produce outputs 208 given data provided as inputs 212; this is in contrast to a non-machine learning software program where the commands to be executed are determined in advance by a user and written in a programming language.

Still referring to FIG. 2 , “training data,” as used herein, is data containing correlations that a machine-learning process may use to model relationships between two or more categories of data elements. For instance, and without limitation, training data 204 may include a plurality of data entries, each entry representing a set of data elements that were recorded, received, and/or generated together; data elements may be correlated by shared existence in a given data entry, by proximity in a given data entry, or the like. Multiple data entries in training data 204 may evince one or more trends in correlations between categories of data elements; for instance, and without limitation, a higher value of a first data element belonging to a first category of data element may tend to correlate to a higher value of a second data element belonging to a second category of data element, indicating a possible proportional or other mathematical relationship linking values belonging to the two categories. Multiple categories of data elements may be related in training data 204 according to various correlations; correlations may indicate causative and/or predictive links between categories of data elements, which may be modeled as relationships such as mathematical relationships by machine-learning processes as described in further detail below. Training data 204 may be formatted and/or organized by categories of data elements, for instance by associating data elements with one or more descriptors corresponding to categories of data elements. As a non-limiting example, training data 204 may include data entered in standardized forms by persons or processes, such that entry of a given data element in a given field in a form may be mapped to one or more descriptors of categories. Elements in training data 204 may be linked to descriptors of categories by tags, tokens, or other data elements; for instance, and without limitation, training data 204 may be provided in fixed-length formats, formats linking positions of data to categories such as comma-separated value (CSV) formats and/or self-describing formats such as extensible markup language (XML), JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), or the like, enabling processes or devices to detect categories of data.

Alternatively or additionally, and continuing to refer to FIG. 2 , training data 204 may include one or more elements that are not categorized; that is, training data 204 may not be formatted or contain descriptors for some elements of data. Machine-learning algorithms and/or other processes may sort training data 204 according to one or more categorizations using, for instance, natural language processing algorithms, tokenization, detection of correlated values in raw data and the like; categories may be generated using correlation and/or other processing algorithms. As a non-limiting example, in a corpus of text, phrases making up a number “n” of compound words, such as nouns modified by other nouns, may be identified according to a statistically significant prevalence of n-grams containing such words in a particular order; such an n-gram may be categorized as an element of language such as a “word” to be tracked similarly to single words, generating a new category as a result of statistical analysis. Similarly, in a data entry including some textual data, a person's name may be identified by reference to a list, dictionary, or other compendium of terms, permitting ad-hoc categorization by machine-learning algorithms, and/or automated association of data in the data entry with descriptors or into a given format. The ability to categorize data entries automatedly may enable the same training data 204 to be made applicable for two or more distinct machine-learning algorithms as described in further detail below. Training data 204 used by machine learning module 200 may correlate any input data as described in this disclosure to any output data as described in this disclosure. As a non-limiting illustrative inputs may include subject-specific data and outputs may include description-specific data.

Further referring to FIG. 2 , training data may be filtered, sorted, and/or selected using one or more supervised and/or unsupervised machine-learning processes and/or models as described in further detail below; such models may include without limitation a training data classifier 216. Training data classifier 216 may include a “classifier,” which as used in this disclosure is a machine-learning model as defined below, such as a mathematical model, neural net, or program generated by a machine learning algorithm known as a “classification algorithm,” as described in further detail below, that sorts inputs into categories or bins of data, outputting the categories or bins of data and/or labels associated therewith. A classifier may be configured to output at least a datum 112 that labels or otherwise identifies a set of data that are clustered together, found to be close under a distance metric as described below, or the like. Machine learning module 200 may generate a classifier using a classification algorithm, defined as a processes whereby a computing device 104 and/or any module and/or component operating thereon derives a classifier from training data 204. Classification may be performed using, without limitation, linear classifiers such as without limitation logistic regression and/or naive Bayes classifiers, nearest neighbor classifiers such as k-nearest neighbors classifiers, support vector machines, least squares support vector machines, fisher's linear discriminant, quadratic classifiers, decision trees, boosted trees, random forest classifiers, learning vector quantization, and/or neural network-based classifiers. As a non-limiting example, training data classifier 216 may classify elements of training data to according to fields of job description for instance, title, role, organization, requisite experience, requisite credentials, and the like.

Still referring to FIG. 2 , machine learning module 200 may be configured to perform a lazy-learning process 220 and/or protocol, which may alternatively be referred to as a “lazy loading” or “call-when-needed” process and/or protocol, may be a process whereby machine learning is conducted upon receipt of an input to be converted to an output, by combining the input and training set to derive the algorithm to be used to produce the output on demand. For instance, an initial set of simulations may be performed to cover an initial heuristic and/or “first guess” at an output and/or relationship. As a non-limiting example, an initial heuristic may include a ranking of associations between inputs and elements of training data 204. Heuristic may include selecting some number of highest-ranking associations and/or training data 204 elements. Lazy learning may implement any suitable lazy learning algorithm, including without limitation a K-nearest neighbors algorithm, a lazy naïve Bayes algorithm, or the like; persons skilled in the art, upon reviewing the entirety of this disclosure, will be aware of various lazy-learning algorithms that may be applied to generate outputs as described in this disclosure, including without limitation lazy learning applications of machine-learning algorithms as described in further detail below.

Alternatively or additionally, and with continued reference to FIG. 2 , machine-learning processes as described in this disclosure may be used to generate machine-learning models 224. A “machine-learning model,” as used in this disclosure, is a mathematical and/or algorithmic representation of a relationship between inputs and outputs, as generated using any machine-learning process including without limitation any process as described above and stored in memory; an input is submitted to a machine-learning model 224 once created, which generates an output based on the relationship that was derived. For instance, and without limitation, a linear regression model, generated using a linear regression algorithm, may compute a linear combination of input data using coefficients derived during machine-learning processes to calculate an output datum 112. As a further non-limiting example, a machine-learning model 224 may be generated by creating an artificial neural network, such as a convolutional neural network comprising an input layer of nodes, one or more intermediate layers, and an output layer of nodes. Connections between nodes may be created via the process of “training” the network, in which elements from a training data 204 set are applied to the input nodes, a suitable training algorithm (such as Levenberg-Marquardt, conjugate gradient, simulated annealing, or other algorithms) is then used to adjust the connections and weights between nodes in adjacent layers of the neural network to produce the desired values at the output nodes. This process is sometimes referred to as deep learning.

Still referring to FIG. 2 , machine-learning algorithms may include at least a supervised machine-learning process 228. At least a supervised machine-learning process 228, as defined herein, include algorithms that receive a training set relating a number of inputs to a number of outputs, and seek to find one or more mathematical relations relating inputs to outputs, where each of the one or more mathematical relations is optimal according to some criterion specified to the algorithm using some scoring function. For instance, a supervised learning algorithm may include subject-specific data as described above as inputs, description-specific data as outputs, and a scoring function representing a desired form of relationship to be detected between inputs and outputs; scoring function may, for instance, seek to maximize the probability that a given input and/or combination of elements inputs is associated with a given output to minimize the probability that a given input is not associated with a given output. Scoring function may be expressed as a risk function representing an “expected loss” of an algorithm relating inputs to outputs, where loss is computed as an error function representing a degree to which a prediction generated by the relation is incorrect when compared to a given input-output pair provided in training data 204. Persons skilled in the art, upon reviewing the entirety of this disclosure, will be aware of various possible variations of at least a supervised machine-learning process 228 that may be used to determine relation between inputs and outputs. Supervised machine-learning processes may include classification algorithms as defined above.

Further referring to FIG. 2 , machine learning processes may include at least an unsupervised machine-learning processes 232. An unsupervised machine-learning process, as used herein, is a process that derives inferences in datasets without regard to labels; as a result, an unsupervised machine-learning process may be free to discover any structure, relationship, and/or correlation provided in the data. Unsupervised processes may not require a response variable; unsupervised processes may be used to find interesting patterns and/or inferences between variables, to determine a degree of correlation between two or more variables, or the like.

Still referring to FIG. 2 , machine learning module 200 may be designed and configured to create a machine-learning model 224 using techniques for development of linear regression models. Linear regression models may include ordinary least squares regression, which aims to minimize the square of the difference between predicted outcomes and actual outcomes according to an appropriate norm for measuring such a difference (e.g. a vector-space distance norm); coefficients of the resulting linear equation may be modified to improve minimization. Linear regression models may include ridge regression methods, where the function to be minimized includes the least-squares function plus term multiplying the square of each coefficient by a scalar amount to penalize large coefficients. Linear regression models may include least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) models, in which ridge regression is combined with multiplying the least-squares term by a factor of 1 divided by double the number of samples. Linear regression models may include a multi-task lasso model wherein the norm applied in the least-squares term of the lasso model is the Frobenius norm amounting to the square root of the sum of squares of all terms. Linear regression models may include the elastic net model, a multi-task elastic net model, a least angle regression model, a LARS lasso model, an orthogonal matching pursuit model, a Bayesian regression model, a logistic regression model, a stochastic gradient descent model, a perceptron model, a passive aggressive algorithm, a robustness regression model, a Huber regression model, or any other suitable model that may occur to persons skilled in the art upon reviewing the entirety of this disclosure. Linear regression models may be generalized in an embodiment to polynomial regression models, whereby a polynomial equation (e.g., a quadratic, cubic or higher-order equation) providing a best predicted output/actual output fit is sought; similar methods to those described above may be applied to minimize error functions, as will be apparent to persons skilled in the art upon reviewing the entirety of this disclosure.

Continuing to refer to FIG. 2 , machine-learning algorithms may include, without limitation, linear discriminant analysis. Machine-learning algorithm may include quadratic discriminate analysis. Machine-learning algorithms may include kernel ridge regression. Machine-learning algorithms may include support vector machines, including without limitation support vector classification-based regression processes. Machine-learning algorithms may include stochastic gradient descent algorithms, including classification and regression algorithms based on stochastic gradient descent. Machine-learning algorithms may include nearest neighbors algorithms. Machine-learning algorithms may include various forms of latent space regularization such as variational regularization. Machine-learning algorithms may include Gaussian processes such as Gaussian Process Regression. Machine-learning algorithms may include cross-decomposition algorithms, including partial least squares and/or canonical correlation analysis. Machine-learning algorithms may include naïve Bayes methods. Machine-learning algorithms may include algorithms based on decision trees, such as decision tree classification or regression algorithms. Machine-learning algorithms may include ensemble methods such as bagging meta-estimator, forest of randomized tress, AdaBoost, gradient tree boosting, and/or voting classifier methods. Machine-learning algorithms may include neural net algorithms, including convolutional neural net processes.

Referring now to FIG. 3 , an exemplary embodiment of neural network 300 is illustrated. A neural network 300 also known as an artificial neural network, is a network of “nodes,” or data structures having one or more inputs, one or more outputs, and a function determining outputs based on inputs. Such nodes may be organized in a network, such as without limitation a convolutional neural network, including an input layer of nodes, one or more intermediate layers, and an output layer of nodes. Connections between nodes may be created via the process of “training” the network, in which elements from a training dataset are applied to the input nodes, a suitable training algorithm (such as Levenberg-Marquardt, conjugate gradient, simulated annealing, or other algorithms) is then used to adjust the connections and weights between nodes in adjacent layers of the neural network to produce the desired values at the output nodes. This process is sometimes referred to as deep learning. Connections may run solely from input nodes toward output nodes in a “feed-forward” network or may feed outputs of one layer back to inputs of the same or a different layer in a “recurrent network.”

Referring now to FIG. 4 , an exemplary embodiment of a node 400 of a neural network is illustrated. Node 400 may include, without limitation a plurality of inputs x_(i) that may receive numerical values from inputs to a neural network containing the node and/or from other nodes. Node may perform a weighted sum of inputs using weights w_(i) that are multiplied by respective inputs x_(i). Additionally or alternatively, a bias b may be added to the weighted sum of the inputs such that an offset is added to each unit in the neural network layer that is independent of the input to the layer. The weighted sum may then be input into a function φ, which may generate one or more outputs y. Weight w_(i) applied to an input x_(i) may indicate whether the input is “excitatory,” indicating that it has strong influence on the one or more outputs y, for instance by the corresponding weight having a large numerical value, and/or a “inhibitory,” indicating it has a weak effect influence on the one more inputs y, for instance by the corresponding weight having a small numerical value. The values of weights w_(i) may be determined by training a neural network using training data, which may be performed using any suitable process as described above.

Referring to FIG. 5 , an exemplary embodiment of fuzzy set comparison 500 is illustrated. A first fuzzy set 504 may be represented, without limitation, according to a first membership function 508 representing a probability that an input falling on a first range of values 512 is a member of the first fuzzy set 504, where the first membership function 508 has values on a range of probabilities such as without limitation the interval [0,1], and an area beneath the first membership function 508 may represent a set of values within first fuzzy set 504. Although first range of values 512 is illustrated for clarity in this exemplary depiction as a range on a single number line or axis, first range of values 512 may be defined on two or more dimensions, representing, for instance, a Cartesian product between a plurality of ranges, curves, axes, spaces, dimensions, or the like. First membership function 508 may include any suitable function mapping first range 512 to a probability interval, including without limitation a triangular function defined by two linear elements such as line segments or planes that intersect at or below the top of the probability interval. As a non-limiting example, triangular membership function may be defined as:

${y\left( {x,a,b,c} \right)} = \left\{ \begin{matrix} {0,{{{for}x} > {c{and}x} < a}} \\ {\frac{x - a}{b - a},{{{for}a} \leq x < b}} \\ {\frac{c - x}{c - b},{{{if}b} < x \leq c}} \end{matrix} \right.$

a trapezoidal membership function may be defined as:

${y\left( {x,a,b,c,d} \right)} = {\max\left( {{\min\ \left( {\frac{x - a}{b - a},1,\frac{d - x}{d - c}} \right)},0} \right)}$

a sigmoidal function may be defined as:

${y\left( {x,a,c} \right)} = \frac{1}{1 - e^{- {a({x - c})}}}$

a Gaussian membership function may be defined as:

${y\left( {x,c,\sigma} \right)} = e^{{- \frac{1}{2}}{(\frac{x - c}{\sigma})}^{2}}$

and a bell membership function may be defined as:

${y\left( {x,a,b,c,} \right)} = \left\lbrack {1 + {❘\frac{x - c}{a}❘}^{2b}} \right\rbrack^{- 1}$

Persons skilled in the art, upon reviewing the entirety of this disclosure, will be aware of various alternative or additional membership functions that may be used consistently with this disclosure.

Still referring to FIG. 5 , first fuzzy set 504 may represent any value or combination of values as described above, including output from one or more processes (e.g., machine-learning models), subject-specific data, and description-specific data. A second fuzzy set 516, which may represent any value which may be represented by first fuzzy set 504, may be defined by a second membership function 520 on a second range 524. Second range 524 may be identical and/or overlap with first range 512 and/or may be combined with first range via Cartesian product or the like to generate a mapping permitting evaluation overlap of first fuzzy set 504 and second fuzzy set 516. Where first fuzzy set 504 and second fuzzy set 516 have a region 528 that overlaps, first membership function 508 and second membership function 520 may intersect at a point 532 representing a probability, as defined on probability interval, of a match between first fuzzy set 504 and second fuzzy set 516. Alternatively or additionally, a single value of first and/or second fuzzy set may be located at a locus 536 on first range 512 and/or second range 524, where a probability of membership may be taken by evaluation of first membership function 508 and/or second membership function 520 at that range point. A probability at 528 and/or 532 may be compared to a threshold 540 to determine whether a positive match is indicated. Threshold 540 may, in a non-limiting example, represent a degree of match between first fuzzy set 504 and second fuzzy set 516, and/or single values therein with each other or with either set, which is sufficient for purposes of the matching process; for instance, threshold may indicate a sufficient degree of overlap between an output from one or more machine-learning models and/or subject-specific data and a predetermined class, such as without limitation a job description, for combination to occur as described above. Alternatively or additionally, each threshold may be tuned by a machine-learning and/or statistical process, for instance and without limitation as described in further detail below.

Further referring to FIG. 5 , in an embodiment, a degree of match between fuzzy sets may be used to classify a subject 120 with at least a job description 152 a-n. For instance, if subject-specific data has a fuzzy set matching a job description fuzzy set by having a degree of overlap exceeding a threshold, computing device 104 may classify the subject as being relevant or otherwise associated with the job description. Where multiple fuzzy matches are performed, degrees of match for each respective fuzzy set may be computed and aggregated through, for instance, addition, averaging, or the like, to determine an overall degree of match.

Still referring to FIG. 5 , in an embodiment, subject-specific data may be compared to multiple class fuzzy sets representing job-descriptions. For instance, subject-specific data may be represented by an individual fuzzy set that is compared to each of the multiple class fuzzy sets; and a degree of overlap exceeding a threshold between the individual fuzzy set and any of the multiple class fuzzy sets may cause computing device 104 to classify the subject as belonging to a job description. For instance, in one embodiment there may be two class fuzzy sets, representing a first job description and a second job description. First job description may have a first fuzzy set; second job description may have a second fuzzy set; and subject-specific data may have an individual fuzzy set. Computing device 104, for example, may compare an individual fuzzy set with each of first fuzzy set and second fuzzy set, as described above, and classify a subject to either, both, or neither of first job description nor second job description. Machine-learning methods as described throughout may, in a non-limiting example, generate coefficients used in fuzzy set equations as described above, such as without limitation x, c, and σ of a Gaussian set as described above, as outputs of machine-learning methods. Likewise, subject-specific data may be used indirectly to determine a fuzzy set, as the fuzzy set may be derived from outputs of one or more machine-learning models that take the subject-specific data directly or indirectly as inputs. Although an exemplary application for fuzzy set matching is described above, fuzzy set matching may be used for any classifications or associations described within this disclosure.

Referring now to FIG. 6 , an exemplary embodiment of an immutable sequential listing 800 is illustrated. Data elements are listed in immutable sequential listing 600. Data elements may include any form of data, including textual data, image data, audio data, encrypted data, cryptographically hashed data, and the like. For instance, and without limitation, an immutable sequential listing includes a plurality of records posted thereon. For example, and without limitation, immutable sequential listing may include a plurality of resumes for a user, such as draft resumes of the user. Furthermore, data elements may include, without limitation, one or more digitally signed assertions. In a non-limiting embodiment, a digitally signed assertion 604 is a collection of textual data signed using a secure proof. Secure proof may include, without limitation, a digital signature. A collection of textual data may contain any textual data, including, without limitation, American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII), Unicode, or similar computer-encoded textual data, any alphanumeric data, punctuation, diacritical mark, or any character or other marking used in any writing system to convey information, in any form, including any plaintext or cyphertext data. In an embodiment, collection of textual data may be encrypted, or may be a hash of other data, such as a root or node of a Merkle tree or hash tree, or a hash of any other information desired to be recorded in some fashion using a digitally signed assertion 604. In an embodiment, collection of textual data states that the owner of contents, such as a certain transferable item or information, represented in a digitally signed assertion 604 register is transferring those contents to the owner of an address. A digitally signed assertion 604 may be signed by a digital signature created using a private key associated with the owner's public key.

Still referring to FIG. 6 , a digitally signed assertion 604 may describe the transfer of a physical good; for instance, a digitally signed assertion 604 may describe the sale of a product, or information, such as a user's personal information, such as user datum. In one embodiment, an address is a textual datum identifying the recipient of the contents, such as user information and/or datum, in a digitally signed assertion 604. In some embodiments, address is linked to a public key, the corresponding private key of which is owned by the recipient of digitally signed assertion 604. For instance, address may be the public key. Address may be a representation, such as a hash, of the public key. Address may be linked to the public key in memory of a processor 140, for instance via a “wallet shortener” protocol. Where address is linked to a public key, a transferee in a digitally signed assertion 604 may record a subsequent digitally signed assertion 604 transferring some or all of the contents in the first digitally signed assertion 604 to a new address in the same manner. A digitally signed assertion 604 may contain textual information that is not a transfer of some item of value in addition to, or as an alternative to, such a transfer. For instance, as a digitally signed assertion 604 may indicate a confidence level associated with a distributed storage node.

Still referring to FIG. 6 , immutable sequential listing 600 records a series of at least a posted content in a way that preserves the order in which the at least a posted content took place. For example, and without limitation, a plurality of resumes of a user may be preserved in an order that the resumes were submitted by the user or generated by processor 140 upon a query or request by user. Temporally sequential listing may be accessible at any of various security settings. For instance, and without limitation, temporally sequential listing may be readable and modifiable publicly, may be publicly readable but writable only by entities and/or devices having access privileges established by password protection, confidence level, or any device authentication procedure or facilities described herein, or may be readable and/or writable only by entities and/or devices having such access privileges. Access privileges may exist in more than one level, including, without limitation, a first access level or community of permitted entities and/or devices having ability to read, and a second access level or community of permitted entities and/or devices having ability to write; first and second community may be overlapping or non-overlapping. In an embodiment, posted content and/or immutable sequential listing 600 may be stored as one or more zero knowledge sets (ZKS), Private Information Retrieval (PIR) structure, or any other structure that allows checking of membership in a set by querying with specific properties. Such database may incorporate protective measures to ensure that malicious actors may not query the database repeatedly in an effort to narrow the members of a set to reveal uniquely identifying information of a given posted content.

Still referring to FIG. 6 , immutable sequential listing 600 may preserve the order in which the at least a posted content took place by listing them in chronological order; alternatively or additionally, immutable sequential listing 600 may organize digitally signed assertions 604 into sub-listings 608 such as “blocks” in a blockchain, which may be themselves collected in a temporally sequential order; digitally signed assertions 604 within a sub-listing 608 may or may not be temporally sequential. The ledger may preserve the order in which at least a posted content took place by listing them in sub-listings 608 and placing the sub-listings 608 in chronological order. The immutable sequential listing 600 may be a distributed, consensus-based ledger, such as those operated according to the protocols promulgated by Ripple Labs, Inc., of San Francisco, Calif., or the Stellar Development Foundation, of San Francisco, Calif., or of Thunder Consensus. In some embodiments, the ledger is a secured ledger; in one embodiment, a secured ledger is a ledger having safeguards against alteration by unauthorized parties. The ledger may be maintained by a proprietor, such as a system administrator on a server, that controls access to the ledger; for instance, the user account controls may allow contributors to the ledger to add at least a posted content to the ledger, but may not allow any users to alter at least a posted content that have been added to the ledger. In some embodiments, ledger is cryptographically secured; in one embodiment, a ledger is cryptographically secured where each link in the chain contains encrypted or hashed information that makes it practically infeasible to alter the ledger without betraying that alteration has taken place, for instance by requiring that an administrator or other party sign new additions to the chain with a digital signature. Immutable sequential listing 600 may be incorporated in, stored in, or incorporate, any suitable data structure, including without limitation any database, datastore, file structure, distributed hash table, directed acyclic graph or the like. In some embodiments, the timestamp of an entry is cryptographically secured and validated via trusted time, either directly on the chain or indirectly by utilizing a separate chain. In one embodiment the validity of timestamp is provided using a time stamping authority as described in the RFC 10161 standard for trusted timestamps, or in the ANSI ASC x9.95 standard. In another embodiment, the trusted time ordering is provided by a group of entities collectively acting as the time stamping authority with a requirement that a threshold number of the group of authorities sign the timestamp.

In some embodiments, and with continued reference to FIG. 6 , immutable sequential listing 600, once formed, may be inalterable by any party, no matter what access rights that party possesses. For instance, immutable sequential listing 600 may include a hash chain, in which data is added during a successive hashing process to ensure non-repudiation. Immutable sequential listing 600 may include a block chain. In one embodiment, a block chain is immutable sequential listing 600 that records one or more new at least a posted content in a data item known as a sub-listing 608 or “block.” An example of a block chain is the BITCOIN block chain used to record BITCOIN transactions and values. Sub-listings 608 may be created in a way that places the sub-listings 608 in chronological order and link each sub-listing 608 to a previous sub-listing 608 in the chronological order so that any processor, such as processor 144, may traverse the sub-listings 608 in reverse chronological order to verify any at least a posted content listed in the block chain. Each new sub-listing 608 may be required to contain a cryptographic hash describing the previous sub-listing 608. In some embodiments, the block chain contains a single first sub-listing 608 sometimes known as a “genesis block.”

Still referring to FIG. 6 , the creation of a new sub-listing 608 may be computationally expensive; for instance, the creation of a new sub-listing 608 may be designed by a “proof of work” protocol accepted by all participants in forming the immutable sequential listing 600 to take a powerful set of computing devices a certain period of time to produce. Where one sub-listing 608 takes less time for a given set of computing devices to produce the sub-listing 608 protocol may adjust the algorithm to produce the next sub-listing 608 so that it will require more steps; where one sub-listing 608 takes more time for a given set of computing devices to produce the sub-listing 608 protocol may adjust the algorithm to produce the next sub-listing 608 so that it will require fewer steps. As an example, protocol may require a new sub-listing 608 to contain a cryptographic hash describing its contents; the cryptographic hash may be required to satisfy a mathematical condition, achieved by having the sub-listing 608 contain a number, called a nonce, whose value is determined after the fact by the discovery of the hash that satisfies the mathematical condition. Continuing the example, the protocol may be able to adjust the mathematical condition so that the discovery of the hash describing a sub-listing 608 and satisfying the mathematical condition requires more or less steps, depending on the outcome of the previous hashing attempt. Mathematical condition, as an example, might be that the hash contains a certain number of leading zeros and a hashing algorithm that requires more steps to find a hash containing a greater number of leading zeros, and fewer steps to find a hash containing a lesser number of leading zeros. In some embodiments, production of a new sub-listing 608 according to the protocol is known as “mining.” The creation of a new sub-listing 608 may be designed by a “proof of stake” protocol as will be apparent to those skilled in the art upon reviewing the entirety of this disclosure.

Continuing to refer to FIG. 6 , in some embodiments, protocol also creates an incentive to mine new sub-listings 608. The incentive may be financial; for instance, successfully mining a new sub-listing 608 may result in the person or entity that mines the sub-listing 608 receiving a predetermined amount of currency. The currency may be fiat currency. Currency may be cryptocurrency as defined below. In other embodiments, incentive may be redeemed for particular products or services; the incentive may be a gift certificate with a particular business. In some embodiments, incentive is sufficiently attractive to cause participants to compete for the incentive by trying to race each other to the creation of sub-listings 608 Each sub-listing 608 created in immutable sequential listing 600 may contain a record or at least a posted content describing one or more addresses that receive an incentive, such as virtual currency, as the result of successfully mining the sub-listing 608.

With continued reference to FIG. 6 , where two entities simultaneously create new sub-listings 608, immutable sequential listing 600 may develop a fork; protocol may determine which of the two alternate branches in the fork is the valid new portion of the immutable sequential listing 600 by evaluating, after a certain amount of time has passed, which branch is longer. “Length” may be measured according to the number of sub-listings 608 in the branch. Length may be measured according to the total computational cost of producing the branch. Protocol may treat only at least a posted content contained the valid branch as valid at least a posted content. When a branch is found invalid according to this protocol, at least a posted content registered in that branch may be recreated in a new sub-listing 608 in the valid branch; the protocol may reject “double spending” at least a posted content that transfer the same virtual currency that another at least a posted content in the valid branch has already transferred. As a result, in some embodiments the creation of fraudulent at least a posted content requires the creation of a longer immutable sequential listing 600 branch by the entity attempting the fraudulent at least a posted content than the branch being produced by the rest of the participants; as long as the entity creating the fraudulent at least a posted content is likely the only one with the incentive to create the branch containing the fraudulent at least a posted content, the computational cost of the creation of that branch may be practically infeasible, guaranteeing the validity of all at least a posted content in the immutable sequential listing 600.

Still referring to FIG. 6 , additional data linked to at least a posted content may be incorporated in sub-listings 608 in the immutable sequential listing 600; for instance, data may be incorporated in one or more fields recognized by block chain protocols that permit a person or computer forming an at least a posted content to insert additional data in the immutable sequential listing 600. In some embodiments, additional data is incorporated in an unspendable at least a posted content field. For instance, the data may be incorporated in an OP RETURN within the BITCOIN block chain. In other embodiments, additional data is incorporated in one signature of a multi-signature at least a posted content. In an embodiment, a multi-signature at least a posted content is at least a posted content to two or more addresses. In some embodiments, the two or more addresses are hashed together to form a single address, which is signed in the digital signature of the at least a posted content. In other embodiments, the two or more addresses are concatenated. In some embodiments, two or more addresses may be combined by a more complicated process, such as the creation of a Merkle tree or the like. In some embodiments, one or more addresses incorporated in the multi-signature at least a posted content are typical cryptocurrency addresses, such as addresses linked to public keys as described above, while one or more additional addresses in the multi-signature at least a posted content contain additional data related to the at least a posted content; for instance, the additional data may indicate the purpose of the at least a posted content, aside from an exchange of virtual currency, such as the item for which the virtual currency was exchanged. In some embodiments, additional information may include network statistics for a given node of network, such as a distributed storage node, e.g. the latencies to nearest neighbors in a network graph, the identities or identifying information of neighboring nodes in the network graph, the trust level and/or mechanisms of trust (e.g., certificates of physical encryption keys, certificates of software encryption keys, (in non-limiting example certificates of software encryption may indicate the firmware version, manufacturer, hardware version and the like), certificates from a trusted third-party, certificates from a decentralized anonymous authentication procedure, and other information quantifying the trusted status of the distributed storage node) of neighboring nodes in the network graph, IP addresses, GPS coordinates, and other information informing location of the node and/or neighboring nodes, geographically and/or within the network graph. In some embodiments, additional information may include history and/or statistics of neighboring nodes with which the node has interacted. In some embodiments, this additional information may be encoded directly, via a hash, hash tree or other encoding.

Referring now to FIG. 7 , an exemplary embodiment of a cryptographic accumulator 700 is illustrated. Cryptographic accumulator 700 has a plurality of accumulated elements 704, each accumulated element 704 generated from a lot of the plurality of data lots. Accumulated elements 704 may be created using an encryption process, defined for this purpose as a process that renders the lots of data unintelligible from the accumulated elements 704. This may be a one-way process such as a cryptographic hashing process and/or a reversible process such as an encryption. Cryptographic accumulator 700 may further include structures and/or processes for conversion of accumulated elements 704 to root 712 element. For instance, and as illustrated for exemplary purposes in FIG. 7 , cryptographic accumulator 700 may be implemented as a Merkle tree and/or hash tree, in which each accumulated element 704 created by cryptographically hashing a lot of data. Two or more accumulated elements 704 may be hashed together in a further cryptographic hashing process to produce a node 708 element; a plurality of node 708 elements may be hashed together to form parent nodes 708, and ultimately a set of nodes 708 may be combined and cryptographically hashed to form root 712. Contents of root 712 may thus be determined by contents of nodes 708 used to generate root 712, and consequently by contents of accumulated elements 704, which are determined by contents of lots used to generate accumulated elements 704. As a result of collision resistance and avalanche effects of hashing algorithms, any change in any lot, accumulated element 704, and/or node 708 is virtually certain to cause a change in root 712; thus, it may be computationally infeasible to modify any element of Merkle and/or hash tree without the modification being detectable as generating a different root 712. In an embodiment, any accumulated element 704 and/or all intervening nodes 708 between accumulated element 704 and root 712 may be made available without revealing anything about a lot of data used to generate accumulated element 704; lot of data may be kept secret and/or demonstrated with a secure proof as described below, preventing any unauthorized party from acquiring data in lot.

Alternatively or additionally, and still referring to FIG. 7 , cryptographic accumulator 700 may include a “vector commitment” which may act as an accumulator in which an order of elements in set is preserved in its root 712 and/or commitment. In an embodiment, a vector commitment may be a position binding commitment and can be opened at any position to a unique value with a short proof (sublinear in the length of the vector). A Merkle tree may be seen as a vector commitment with logarithmic size openings. Subvector commitments may include vector commitments where a subset of the vector positions can be opened in a single short proof (sublinear in the size of the subset). Persons skilled in the art, upon reviewing the entirety of this disclosure, will be aware of various alternative or additional cryptographic accumulators 700 that may be used as described herein. In addition to Merkle trees, accumulators may include without limitation RSA accumulators, class group accumulators, and/or bi-linear pairing-based accumulators. Any accumulator may operate using one-way functions that are easy to verify but infeasible to reverse, i.e. given an input it is easy to produce an output of the one-way function, but given an output it is computationally infeasible and/or impossible to generate the input that produces the output via the one-way function. For instance, and by way of illustration, a Merkle tree may be based on a hash function as described above. Data elements may be hashed and grouped together. Then, the hashes of those groups may be hashed again and grouped together with the hashes of other groups; this hashing and grouping may continue until only a single hash remains. As a further non-limiting example, RSA and class group accumulators may be based on the fact that it is infeasible to compute an arbitrary root of an element in a cyclic group of unknown order, whereas arbitrary powers of elements are easy to compute. A data element may be added to the accumulator by hashing the data element successively until the hash is a prime number and then taking the accumulator to the power of that prime number. The witness may be the accumulator prior to exponentiation. Bi-linear paring-based accumulators may be based on the infeasibility found in elliptic curve cryptography, namely that finding a number k such that adding to itself k results in Q is impractical, whereas confirming that, given 4 points P, Q, R, S, the point, P needs to be added as many times to itself to result in Q as R needs to be added as many times to itself to result in S, can be computed efficiently for certain elliptic cures.

Now referring to FIG. 8 , a flow chart of method 800 of digital posting match recommendation is shown. At step 805, method 800 includes receiving, using computing device 104, posting datum 112. In one or more non-limiting embodiments, posting datum may include information regarding a job position available with a particular employer. These steps may be implemented as described above, without limitation, in FIGS. 1-9 .

At step 810, method 800 includes determining, by the computing device, a record recommendation 116 as a function of the posting datum 112. In one or more embodiments, determining record recommendation 116 includes generating compatibility score 136 between user and job position. In one or more embodiments, record recommendation 116 may include a suggested alteration of a record of a user. In one or more embodiments, method 300 further includes the step of determining record recommendation 116 by generating a customized record. These steps may be implemented as described above, without limitation, in FIGS. 1-9 .

At step 815, method 800 includes providing, by computing device, interaction preparation 120 as a function of record recommendation 116. In one or more embodiments, the interaction preparation 120 includes an interactive interview. These steps may be implemented as described above, without limitation, in FIGS. 1-9 .

At step 820, method 300 includes displaying, by display component 128 record recommendation 116 or interaction preparation 120 to user. In one or more embodiments, displaying interaction preparation 120 includes displaying interaction preparation 120 using a graphic user interface shown on display component 128. These steps may be implemented as described above, without limitation, in FIGS. 1-9 .

In one or more embodiments, method 800 also includes the steps of receiving, by computing device 104, user datum 108 and determining, by computing device 104, record recommendation 116 as a function of posting datum 112 and user datum 108. In one or more embodiments, method 800 includes retrieving, from an immutable sequential listing, a plurality of records posted thereon. The plurality of records may be used as user datum 108 for determining record recommendation 116. In one or more embodiments, user datum 108 may include information inputted into a graphic user interface by user. In one or more embodiments, user datum 108 may include information from a previously presented record of user, such as a records from the plurality of records post on an immutable sequential listing. In one or more embodiments, method further includes storing, by a memory component communicatively connected to the computing device, the posting datum 112. These steps may be implemented as described above, without limitation, in FIGS. 1-9 .

It is to be noted that any one or more of the aspects and embodiments described herein may be conveniently implemented using one or more machines (e.g., one or more computing devices that are utilized as a user computing device for an electronic document, one or more server devices, such as a document server, etc.) programmed according to the teachings of the present specification, as will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the computer art. Appropriate software coding can readily be prepared by skilled programmers based on the teachings of the present disclosure, as will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the software art. Aspects and implementations discussed above employing software and/or software modules may also include appropriate hardware for assisting in the implementation of the machine executable instructions of the software and/or software module.

Such software may be a computer program product that employs a machine-readable storage medium. A machine-readable storage medium may be any medium that is capable of storing and/or encoding a sequence of instructions for execution by a machine (e.g., a computing device) and that causes the machine to perform any one of the methodologies and/or embodiments described herein. Examples of a machine-readable storage medium include, but are not limited to, a magnetic disk, an optical disc (e.g., CD, CD-R, DVD, DVD-R, etc.), a magneto-optical disk, a read-only memory “ROM” device, a random-access memory “RAM” device, a magnetic card, an optical card, a solid-state memory device, an EPROM, an EEPROM, and any combinations thereof. A machine-readable medium, as used herein, is intended to include a single medium as well as a collection of physically separate media, such as, for example, a collection of compact discs or one or more hard disk drives in combination with a computer memory. As used herein, a machine-readable storage medium does not include transitory forms of signal transmission.

Such software may also include information (e.g., data) carried as a data signal on a data carrier, such as a carrier wave. For example, machine-executable information may be included as a data-carrying signal embodied in a data carrier in which the signal encodes a sequence of instruction, or portion thereof, for execution by a machine (e.g., a computing device) and any related information (e.g., data structures and data) that causes the machine to perform any one of the methodologies and/or embodiments described herein.

Examples of a computing device include, but are not limited to, an electronic book reading device, a computer workstation, a terminal computer, a server computer, a handheld device (e.g., a tablet computer, a smartphone, etc.), a web appliance, a network router, a network switch, a network bridge, any machine capable of executing a sequence of instructions that specify an action to be taken by that machine, and any combinations thereof. In one example, a computing device may include and/or be included in a kiosk.

FIG. 7 shows a diagrammatic representation of one embodiment of a computing device in the exemplary form of a computer system 700 within which a set of instructions for causing a control system to perform any one or more of the aspects and/or methodologies of the present disclosure may be executed. It is also contemplated that multiple computing devices may be utilized to implement a specially configured set of instructions for causing one or more of the devices to perform any one or more of the aspects and/or methodologies of the present disclosure. Computer system 700 includes a processor 704 and a memory 708 that communicate with each other, and with other components, via a bus 712. Bus 712 may include any of several types of bus structures including, but not limited to, a memory bus, a memory controller, a peripheral bus, a local bus, and any combinations thereof, using any of a variety of bus architectures.

Processor 704 may include any suitable processor, such as without limitation a processor incorporating logical circuitry for performing arithmetic and logical operations, such as an arithmetic and logic unit (ALU), which may be regulated with a state machine and directed by operational inputs from memory and/or sensors; processor 704 may be organized according to Von Neumann and/or Harvard architecture as a non-limiting example. Processor 704 may include, incorporate, and/or be incorporated in, without limitation, a microcontroller, microprocessor, digital signal processor (DSP), Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Complex Programmable Logic Device (CPLD), Graphical Processing Unit (GPU), general purpose GPU, Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), analog or mixed signal processor, Trusted Platform Module (TPM), a floating-point unit (FPU), and/or system on a chip (SoC).

Memory 708 may include various components (e.g., machine-readable media) including, but not limited to, a random-access memory component, a read only component, and any combinations thereof. In one example, a basic input/output system 716 (BIOS), including basic routines that help to transfer information between elements within computer system 700, such as during start-up, may be stored in memory 708. Memory 708 may also include (e.g., stored on one or more machine-readable media) instructions (e.g., software) 720 embodying any one or more of the aspects and/or methodologies of the present disclosure. In another example, memory 708 may further include any number of program modules including, but not limited to, an operating system, one or more application programs, other program modules, program data, and any combinations thereof.

Computer system 700 may also include a storage device 724. Examples of a storage device (e.g., storage device 724) include, but are not limited to, a hard disk drive, a magnetic disk drive, an optical disc drive in combination with an optical medium, a solid-state memory device, and any combinations thereof. Storage device 724 may be connected to bus 712 by an appropriate interface (not shown). Example interfaces include, but are not limited to, SCSI, advanced technology attachment (ATA), serial ATA, universal serial bus (USB), IEEE 1394 (FIREWIRE), and any combinations thereof. In one example, storage device 724 (or one or more components thereof) may be removably interfaced with computer system 700 (e.g., via an external port connector (not shown)). Particularly, storage device 724 and an associated machine-readable medium 728 may provide nonvolatile and/or volatile storage of machine-readable instructions, data structures, program modules, and/or other data for computer system 700. In one example, software 720 may reside, completely or partially, within machine-readable medium 728. In another example, software 720 may reside, completely or partially, within processor 704.

Computer system 700 may also include an input device 732. In one example, a user of computer system 700 may enter commands and/or other information into computer system 700 via input device 732. Examples of an input device 732 include, but are not limited to, an alpha-numeric input device (e.g., a keyboard), a pointing device, a joystick, a gamepad, an audio input device (e.g., a microphone, a voice response system, etc.), a cursor control device (e.g., a mouse), a touchpad, an optical scanner, a video capture device (e.g., a still camera, a video camera), a touchscreen, and any combinations thereof. Input device 732 may be interfaced to bus 712 via any of a variety of interfaces (not shown) including, but not limited to, a serial interface, a parallel interface, a game port, a USB interface, a FIREWIRE interface, a direct interface to bus 712, and any combinations thereof. Input device 732 may include a touch screen interface that may be a part of or separate from display 736, discussed further below. Input device 732 may be utilized as a user selection device for selecting one or more graphical representations in a graphical interface as described above.

A user may also input commands and/or other information to computer system 700 via storage device 724 (e.g., a removable disk drive, a flash drive, etc.) and/or network interface device 740. A network interface device, such as network interface device 740, may be utilized for connecting computer system 700 to one or more of a variety of networks, such as network 744, and one or more remote devices 748 connected thereto. Examples of a network interface device include, but are not limited to, a network interface card (e.g., a mobile network interface card, a LAN card), a modem, and any combination thereof. Examples of a network include, but are not limited to, a wide area network (e.g., the Internet, an enterprise network), a local area network (e.g., a network associated with an office, a building, a campus or other relatively small geographic space), a telephone network, a data network associated with a telephone/voice provider (e.g., a mobile communications provider data and/or voice network), a direct connection between two computing devices, and any combinations thereof. A network, such as network 744, may employ a wired and/or a wireless mode of communication. In general, any network topology may be used. Information (e.g., data, software 720, etc.) may be communicated to and/or from computer system 700 via network interface device 740.

Computer system 700 may further include a video display adapter 752 for communicating a displayable image to a display device, such as display device 736. Examples of a display device include, but are not limited to, a liquid crystal display (LCD), a cathode ray tube (CRT), a plasma display, a light emitting diode (LED) display, and any combinations thereof. Display adapter 752 and display device 736 may be utilized in combination with processor 704 to provide graphical representations of aspects of the present disclosure. In addition to a display device, computer system 700 may include one or more other peripheral output devices including, but not limited to, an audio speaker, a printer, and any combinations thereof. Such peripheral output devices may be connected to bus 712 via a peripheral interface 756. Examples of a peripheral interface include, but are not limited to, a serial port, a USB connection, a FIREWIRE connection, a parallel connection, and any combinations thereof.

The foregoing has been a detailed description of illustrative embodiments of the invention. Various modifications and additions can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of this invention. Features of each of the various embodiments described above may be combined with features of other described embodiments as appropriate in order to provide a multiplicity of feature combinations in associated new embodiments. Furthermore, while the foregoing describes a number of separate embodiments, what has been described herein is merely illustrative of the application of the principles of the present invention. Additionally, although particular methods herein may be illustrated and/or described as being performed in a specific order, the ordering is highly variable within ordinary skill to achieve methods, systems, and software according to the present disclosure. Accordingly, this description is meant to be taken only by way of example, and not to otherwise limit the scope of this invention.

Exemplary embodiments have been disclosed above and illustrated in the accompanying drawings. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes, omissions and additions may be made to that which is specifically disclosed herein without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. 

What is claimed is:
 1. A method for posting match recommendation, the method comprising: receiving, by at least a processor, a posting datum of a posting; receiving, by the at least a processor, a user datum from a user; retrieving, by the at least a processor, a plurality of records from an immutable sequential listing; determining, by the at least a processor, a compatibility score as a function of the posting datum and the user datum; determining, by the at least a processor, a record recommendation as a function of the posting datum, the user datum, and the plurality of records; and displaying, at a display communicatively connected to the at least a processor, the revised record recommendation and the compatibility score to the user.
 2. The method of claim 1, wherein: user datum comprises a draft resume; and the record recommendation comprises a recommended edit for the draft resume.
 3. The method of claim 1, wherein: the user datum comprises a draft video resume; and the record recommendation comprises a suggested recommendation for the draft video resume.
 4. The method of claim 1, further comprising: increasing, using the at least a processor, the compatibility score as a function of the posting datum and the user datum.
 5. The method of claim 1, further comprising: automatedly executing, using the at least a processor, the record recommendation for the user datum.
 6. The method of claim 1, wherein the record recommendation comprises a new customized record, wherein the new customized record comprises a formatted record with the user datum associated with the posting datum.
 7. The method of claim 1, further comprising: identifying, using the at least a processor, user-related data from a sample resume; and replacing the user-related data with the user datum.
 8. The method of claim 1, wherein the user datum compromises information from a previously presented record.
 9. The method of claim 1, further comprising: storing, using a memory component communicatively connected to the at least a processor, the posting datum.
 10. The method of claim 1, further comprising: providing, using the at least a processor, an interaction preparation as a function of the record recommendation, wherein the interaction preparation comprises an interactive interview.
 11. A digital posting match recommendation apparatus, the apparatus comprising: at least a processor; and a memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor, the memory containing instructions configuring the at least a processor to: receive a posting datum of a posting; receive a user datum from a user; retrieve a plurality of records from an immutable sequential listing; determine a compatibility score as a function of the posting datum and the user datum; determine a record recommendation as a function of the posting datum, the user datum, and the plurality of records; and display, at a display communicatively connected to the at least a processor, the revised record recommendation and the compatibility score to the user.
 12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein: user datum comprises a draft resume; and the record recommendation comprises a recommended edit for the draft resume.
 13. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein: the user datum comprises a draft video resume; and the record recommendation comprises a suggested recommendation for the draft video resume.
 14. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the at least a processor is further configured to increase the compatibility score as a function of the posting datum and the user datum.
 15. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the at least a processor is further configured to automatedly execute the record recommendation for the user datum.
 16. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the record recommendation comprises a new customized record, wherein the new customized record comprises a formatted record with the user datum associated with the posting datum.
 17. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the at least a processor is further configured to: identifying user-related data from a sample resume; and replacing the user-related data with the user datum.
 18. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the user datum compromises information from a previously presented record.
 19. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the at least a processor is further configured to store the posting datum.
 20. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the at least a processor is further configured to provide an interaction preparation as a function of the record recommendation, interaction preparation comprises an interactive interview. 